Hetch Litman > Hetch's Quotes

“Outside in the barnlot he looked up and the pale moon was directly over him and all-encompassing. It appeared to be lowering itself onto the earth and he could make out mountains and ranges of hills and hollows and dark shadowed areas of mystery he judged to be timber and he wondered what manner of beast thrived there and what their lives were like and the need to be there twisted in his heart like an old pain that will not dissipate.”
― William Gay, Twilight

“don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right.”
― William Gay, Provinces of Night

“He wanted her the rest of his life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.”
― William Gay, Provinces of Night

“Her quickened breath was the very affirmation of life.”
― William Gay, Provinces of Night

“Seems like it's peaceful, just bein' in a country that lays the way you remember it layin”
― William Gay, Provinces of Night

“I see the lights blinking on in the dark room where Tess was keeping her illusions.”
― Bernard Lee DeLeo, Hard Case

“They say a man can change his personality—the basic essence of who or what he is—by five percent. Five percent: the total change any one of us is capable of.”
― Craig Davidson, Fighter

“They say a man can change his personality—the basic essence of who or what he is—by five percent. Five percent: the total change any one of us is capable of. At first it sounds trivial. Five percent, what’s that? A fingernail paring. But consider the vastness of the human psyche and that number acquires real weight. Think five percent of the Earth’s total landmass, five percent of the known universe. Millions of square acres, billions of light years. Consider how a change of five percent could alter anyone. Imagine dominoes lined in neat straight rows, the world of possibilities set in motion at a touch. Five percent: everything changes. Five percent: a whole new person. Considered in these terms, five percent really means something. Considered in these terms, five percent is colossal.”
― Craig Davidson, Fighter

“Wealth hung awkwardly on some people, gave rise to perversions of taste and common sense: fad diets and Tae Bo and shit-in-milk-jug art exhibits. Some people were better off poor.”
― Craig Davidson, Fighter